After the last sunbeam,
After the last goodnight,
After the last prayer,

Another girl rises.

He doesn’t know her.
You don’t know her.
They don’t know her.

She’s so very different,

From all that wisdom,
From all that composure,
From all that frozen image.

The moon isn’t distant anymore.
The lover isn’t distant anymore.
The damsel isn’t distant anymore.

She’s all,

Skin
Lips
and throat.

Singing,
Dancing,
Swaying.

Like a wild creature,
Like a forgotten dream,
Like a mischievous fae,

finally set free.

It’s dark,
It’s late,
It’s deep.

Timeless like the galaxy,
Roaring like the waves,
Twirling like the leaves.

Alone,
Lonely,
Lovelorn.

But burning so brightly
But yearning so deeply
But breathing so lightly.

You dream of her,
sometimes.

You hope for her,
sometimes.

You glimpse her,
Sometimes.

But she’s ever out of your reach.

Her deepest love
Her strongest bond
Her brightest moment

Wrapped in plastic.
Cloaked in wires.
Scattered in codes.

01101001
 00100000
 01101100 
01101111
 01110110
 01100101
 00100000 
01111001
 01101111 
01110101
 00100000
 01010101
 11000111 
10100111 
01110101 
01110010

Now you know,
Don’t you?

Now you run,
Don’t you?

Now you vanish,
Don’t you.